Purpose Quotes - Page 30

• If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Way

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• Be loving to yourself and others will see that love reciprocated. This rule works every time

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Love Life

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• Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Just Being

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• Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Looks

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• Your life's work is to find your life's work-and then to exercise the discipline, tenacity, and hard work it takes to pursue it

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Hard Work

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• Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Moving

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• SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Ocean, Musical

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.215, University of Georgia Press

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• What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Thinking

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• THE PATH OF PEACE is exceedingly vast, reflecting the grand design of the hidden and manifest worlds. A warrior is a living shrine of the divine, one who serves that grand purpose.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Warrior, Design, Shrines

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Earthquakes

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• The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Time, War, Party

  "Meditation on the DivineWill," ca. 2 Sept. 1862

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• To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goals—to the best of our ability, whatever that ability may be—and to behave in accordance with that which we see and know.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Goal, May

  Nathaniel Branden (1999). “The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Soy sauce is really a multi-purpose seasoning.

  Martin Yan

  Soy Sauce, Seasoning, Soy

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• Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.

  Owen Gingerich

  Home, Self, Profound

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• It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy and you set out to defeat it. So, naturally, the mountain fights back and it is stronger than you are. We do not see the mountain as our enemy to be conquered. The purpose of our climb is to become one with the mountain and so it lifts us up and carries us along.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Fighting, Enemy, Mountain

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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• A Christian can believe that God 'ordained' the 'powers that be' - including political rulers and slaveholders - for purposes too deep for us to understand fully, and that while they last we must provisionally accept them; but that they were not meant to last forever.

  Joseph Sobran

  Christian, Believe, Forever

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• Nothing is happy until it fulfills the purpose for which it was created by God.

  Jack Hyles

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• I love my life, because I’ve seen my purpose.

  Nick Vujicic

  Love Of My Life, I Love My Life

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.

  Ani DiFranco

  Life, Expression, Littles

  Song: Phase, Album: Evolve, 2003

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• I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.

  James D. Watson

  Thinking, Lunch, Mindfulness

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• Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness, wrap a blanket around yourself, and say, 'How cozy! I'm going to curl up in here by myself; let the world burn.' Not at all. We go deep into meditation so that we can reach out further and further to the world outside.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Thinking, Meditation, Cozy

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.169, Nilgiri Press

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• Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem.

  Charlene Tilton

  Girl, Teenage, Self Esteem

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• What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

  Nathan Deal

  Agriculture, Fetus, Research

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• I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. And as long as I had a part in the music of the spheres, even if it was only a single grace note, I was not worthless. Nor was I alone.

  R. J. Anderson

  Long, Grace, Cosmos

  R. J. Anderson (2011). “Ultraviolet”, p.291, Carolrhoda Lab

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• The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Loss, Secret, Answers

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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